This article provides stepwise instructions on how to extract Metadata from Word document in C# with a few simple API calls. You can also find a working sample code to get Word metadata using C# in this post. The workflow described in this guide does not depend on any other third-party tool and can be followed on any of the popular operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux that support a .NET environment.

Steps to Extract Metadata from Word Document in C#

1. Setup GroupDocs.Parser for .NET package from the NuGet package manager in the .NET project to extract Metadata from Word document
2. Add a reference to the necessary namespaces for extracting Metadata from the Word file
3. Instantiate the Parser class for loading the input DOCX file
4. Invoke the GetMetadata method of the Parser class for getting the metadata collection
5. Finally, iterate over the collection to get the name and value of the metadata

The above workflow enables you to rapidly create the capability to get metadata Word document in C#. You can initialize the Word metadata extraction process by setting up the required package and including the necessary namespace in the code. Once you are done with this, you need to load DOC or DOCX file by initializing the Parser class. In the next two steps, you have to call the GetMetadata method for getting metadata collection and then iterate it over for further processing.

Code to Extract Metadata from Word Document in C#

The C# metadata Word document application is developed for demonstration using the instructions explained in the earlier section. We have written a few lines code and consumed a few API calls for extracting metadata from a Word file. Further, you can easily extract metadata from other document formats such as DOC, DOCX, RTF, XLSX, PDF, PPTX, MSG, EML, and many more with a little tweaking of this sample code.

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